Instapundit does a very nice job highlighting points from "that other" Iraqi WMD report:

SADDAM HUSSEIN believed he could avoid the Iraq war with a bribery strategy targeting Jacques Chirac, the President of France, according to devastating documents released last night.
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Focusing his attention in particular on France and Russia, both permanent members of the UN Security Council, Saddam awarded oil exploration contracts and financial inducements to individuals.
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Although they found no evidence that Saddam had made any WMD since 1992, they found documents which showed the "guiding theme" of his regime was to be able to start making them again with as short a lead time as possible."

Which is a conclusion that sounds awfully goddamned familar, if I do say so myself.

Which (yet again) leads me to ask would someone please tell me why getting UN and international approval for anything we do is so freaking important? I know it's rude, but I am rather curious.